28.Aug.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 27.08.2016
Using WHDLoad,you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until August 27th, 2016:
- 2016-08-25 new: Worldcharts 9 (The Silents) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
- 2016-08-24 fixed: Dyter-07 (reLINE) all protections removed, game doesn't crash anymore, trainers added, interrupts fixed, source code included (Info)
- 2016-08-22 new: Art and Go (Impulse) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
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28.Aug.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: File manager Dir Me Up 3.02
Jérôme 'Glames' Senays' commercial file manager "Dir Me Up" among others offers browsing history and preview images or thumbnails. In version 3.02 no longer names of drives are limited to three characters and the Swedish and German translation have been completed.
The update is available for free to all resistered users. All other ones can test an limited demo version.
Download: DirMeUp_Demo.lha (16 MB)
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28.Aug.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Podcast: The Retro Hour talked to Gunnar von Boehn
The latest issue 34 of the British podcast "The Retro Hour" also talked to Gunnar von Boehn (from 9th minute) about the Vampire accelerator board for the Amiga 1200 which is expected to be released at the end of the year. They also talked about other plans and the NatAmi-project.
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25.Aug.2016
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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AmiCast: Text interview with David Brunet
The seventh text interview of the English-language podcast AmiCast is dedicated to David Brunet, who especially is well-known for the French Amiga portal Obligement. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Aug.2016
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AROS: July 2016 Highlights
Based on his weekly news on the progresses of the operating system AROS, Krzysztof 'deadwood' Śmiechowicz writes monthly summaries as well.
In July several minor bug fixes and improvements provided by different developers (among others Neil Cafferkey, Krzysztof Śmiechowicz, Matthias Rustler and Stefan Haubenthal) were done - e.g. the native GCC now finds the SDK paths.
Additionally, the Apollo team offers Vampire accelerator boards for developers for free, who push AROS/68k forward. New and updated programms and games (e.g. SimpleMail 0.41, EmuLa) as well as another preversion of the AROS-distribution Broadway are provided as well.
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23.Aug.2016
Stefan Egger (ANF)
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Photographs of and information about Amiga 3400 (preproduction series A4000)
Stefan Egger ("computer collection vienna") has bought an "Amiga 3400", which is a preproduction series of a computer, later sold as Amiga 4000. His working computer and the difference to the later preproduction series he presents on his website. Some missing parts (upper part of the case, HDD-mount, mount for the disk drive, joyport sheet) will be soon completed.
The mount of the disk drive is different to the one of the A4000 and have to be made. Additional information Egger would really appreciate. The computer currently only recognizes 1 MB ChipRAM, for that any hints would be helpful as well.
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22.Aug.2016
amiga68k.de (Webseite)
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Preview video: Shooter "AlarCity"
AlarCity is supposed to become a fast shooter scrolling in eight directions. Ports for Amiga (AGA), Windows and MacOS are planned. Already in June a video was released which shows an early version of the engine running on an (emulated) CD32.
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21.Aug.2016
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Bounty for port of 3D game engine Irrlicht
Under the title link, Bastiaan de Waard (MorphOS Central) is going to donate 400 Euro to this person who will port the 3D game engine Irrlicht to MorphOS. Accordiung to some comments, other MorphOS users will donate as well.
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21.Aug.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 20.08.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until August 20th, 2016:
nntpsend.lha comm/tcp 12K 68k Send news to newsservers (e.g...
iBrowse2.4GR_Upd.lha comm/www 19K Updated Greek Catalogs for iB...
Save_Da_Vinyl_02.zip demo/mag 434K 68k Diskmag/Musicdisk by Venal, 1996
Save_Da_Vinyl_03.zip demo/mag 721K 68k Diskmag/Musicdisk by MadWizar...
Save_Da_Vinyl_04.zip demo/mag 621K 68k Diskmag/Musicdisk by MadWizar...
MWB_Doc_Disk_11.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_16.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_23.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_24.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_26.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_27.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_28.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_30.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_31.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_34.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_40.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_41.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_42.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_48.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_52.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_56.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_58.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_59.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_60.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_61.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_62.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
MWB_Dox_Disk_63.adf game/hint 880K 68k Solutions for various games
APool-GL.lha game/misc 1.8M MOS 3D computer billiards simulation
Adom.lha game/role 1.5M 68k Ancient Domains Of Mystery R60
Adom_68020.lha game/role 1.5M 68k Ancient Domains Of Mystery R6...
Adom_68040.lha game/role 1.5M 68k Ancient Domains Of Mystery R6...
ADOM_Guide.lha game/role 78K ADOM Guide
lazymines_mos.lha game/think 121K MOS The ULTIMATE minesweeper game
yahzee_mos.lha game/think 79K MOS Dice game
hp02.lha mags/hpool 715K HousePool: German House/Techn...
AmiArcadia.lha misc/emu 4.1M 68k Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadia_OS4.lha misc/emu 4.4M OS4 Signetics-based machines emul...
AmiArcadiaMOS.lha misc/emu 4.4M MOS Signetics-based machines emul...
Calimero_3.5.lha text/dtp 6.7M MOS A DTP Program
lhasa.lha util/arc 3.5M MOS Free Software LHA implementation
BootEm.lha util/boot 25K 68k Ancient BootLeg replacement
MultiBoot.lha util/boot 8K 68k Ancient MultiBoot for AmigaDOS
A-Shell.lha util/shell 13K 68k Amiga Shell
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21.Aug.2016
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 20.08.2016
The following packages have been added to the OS4Depot until August 20th, 2016:
thankyou.lha dem/mis 7Mb 4.0 Nice oldschool effects
amiarcadia.lha emu/gam 4Mb 4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
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21.Aug.2016
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WHDLoad: New installers until 20.08.2016
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until August 20th, 2016:
- 2016-08-18 fixed: Tower of Babel (Rainbird) patch works with WHDLoad v16+ now, interrupts fixed, slave code optimised (Info)
- 2016-08-17 improved: Ziriax (The Whiz Kidz) lots of missing blitter waits added, blitter wait patches disabled on 68000, byte write to VPOSW fixed, Bplcon0 color bit fixes, joypad support added, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info, Image)
- 2016-08-16 improved: Switchback (Rebels) interrupts fixed, demo works fine on 68060 now, new install script, source code included (Info, Image)
- 2016-08-16 improved: Extension (Pygmy Projects) all line drawing routines fixed (byte writes to BltCon1, wrong BltCon0 settings) (Info, Image)
- 2016-08-16 improved: Lotus 2 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin) 68000 quitkey support, WHDLoad v17+ features used (Info)
- 2016-08-15 improved: Jurassic Park (Ocean) added quitkey for 68000 (Info)
- 2016-08-14 improved: IK+ (Archer MacLean) NTSC support changed, slave code optimised (Info)
- 2016-08-14 fixed: Lethal Zone (Infernal Byte System) interrupt problem causing the game to freeze fixed, timing fixes optional now (Info)
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20.Aug.2016
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Screenshot of original BoingBall-Demo
There are different versions of the famous "Boingball-Demo". Again and again collectors are trying to find the oldest and "only real" one. Since the events dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Amiga it is known that the first version of the demo contained a text in the background which an old screenshot proves:
Amiga user Pentad found the screenshot in the September issue of the Amercian magazine "Compute!" from 1985. According to Mical's report after the acquisition by Commodore, the Amiga developers were told to remove the logo "Amiga Computer, Inc" - and in protest against it they did not wrote a different one.
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20.Aug.2016
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: DTP programm Calimero 3.5
Carsten Siegner's DTP proramm Calimero now can handle automatic hyphenation. Libraries for the German and English language are provided but you can also install other ones.
The second screenshot shows the rendering of barcodes: Calimero now can handle about 100 different kind of barcodes (e.g. EAN, ISBN, QR-Code, Maxi-Code).
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20.Aug.2016
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Italian assembler coding course as book and free e-Book
In the early 90s, Fabio Ciucci alias "Randy of RamJam" sold an Italian assembler coding course on disks. A slightly reworked version he now offers as download under the GNU GPL. A printed version you can buy at lulu.com for 25 Euro (plus taxes and shipping).
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19.Aug.2016
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Assembler sources of scene group "Agile"
A member of the former Amiga group Agile has released some of his old sources on Github, among others crack intros as well as some demo effects.
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18.Aug.2016
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Hexen II - Hammer of Thyrion (uHexen2 1.5.8) for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS
Szilárd 'BSzili' Biró has ported the engine of the FPS classic
Hexen II to AmigaOS 3, MorphOS and AROS. The engine uHexen2 as well as the corresponding game data of the Shareware version are available on sourceforge.net. Warp 3D is supported via MiniGL and StormMesa but a software renderer is available as well.
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18.Aug.2016
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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PDF-Magazine: REV'n'GE 61 (Italian/English)
The PDF-magazine REV'n'GE ("Retro Emulator Vision and Game") is available in Italian as well as in an English-language translation. REV'n'GE compares and reviews games on vintage computers.
Among others the latest issue includes articles about the Amiga games "Innocent Until Caught", "Heart of China" and "Center Court: Tennis".
Download sites:
Italian
English
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15.Aug.2016
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Jump'n Run: Super Robin
The Jump'n Run game "Super Robin" (Video) written by Chris Clarke was created with the Reality Game Engine. In each of the 32 levels you have to collect all fruit and then to get to the exit.
Additional to teleporter doors and switches (push up on your joystick and then press fire), there are also bonus levels, which can be accessed at the end pf a level.
The author used the Reality Game Engine because compared to e.g. Backbone it has some benefits. Obviously it has also some flaws and limitations which he mentioned:
- Occasionally some graphic glitch on the enemy sprites in the training mode
- The main sprite will not be changed. Reality does include a hotspot editor but there are no instructions available on how to use or implement this.
- Only one in game music tune can be used throughout the game.
- The disk version the game would sometimes crash after a particular level.
Super Robin requires any Amiga with at least 2 MB RAM. A version for CD32 is also offered.
Downloads:
Robin_adf.zip (1 MB)
Super Robin CD32.zip (2 MB)
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15.Aug.2016
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Interview: Steve Hammond (DMA Design)
The blog "Retro Video Gamer" has interviewed Steve Hammond, who is one founder DMA Design who among others was responsible for the story of Hired Guns and collaborated in Lemmings 2.
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15.Aug.2016
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Boulder Dash clone: Full version of Robouldix for free download
In 1993 the Boulder Dash clone Robouldix was released as "Payware" (Shareware). Robouldix offers about 150 levels and an optional two player mode. On a separate website, the authors offer the game the full version for free download.
The team currently is about to assemble the game again and to fixes some bugs: Among others levels 134 and 135 are considered to be unsolvable. There is already a list including all paswords for the single player mode.
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15.Aug.2016
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Aminet-Uploads until 13.08.2016
The following packages have been added to the Aminet until August 13th, 2016:
GoFetch_122.lha comm/net 57K 68k recompiled and optimized with...
Prawda_Magic__No1_199... demo/mag 514K 68k A mixed German/English diskma...
Prawda_Vega_No1_1993.zip demo/mag 395K 68k A polish diskmag by Vega (1993)
Prawda_Vega_No2_1993.zip demo/mag 743K 68k A polish diskmag by Vega (1993)
Afinder12.lha dev/misc 2K 68k Address Finder an old forgott...
Goldmine.adf game/actio 880K 68k Clone of Oil's Well (C64), le...
TBE-Preview.lha game/demo 813K 68k The Big End unreleased Game f...
Raid_Over_Moscow.zip game/shoot 570K 68k Unfinished remake of the C64 ...
Lepani.adf game/think 880K 68k Guide three fellas with diff....
Smart.zip game/think 539K 68k Sokoban with explosions
Hercules.lha misc/emu 5.2M MOS The S/370, ESA/390 and z/Arch...
JetAnim.lha pix/anim 7.4M Jet animation in DPaint
Uedit4k2.lha text/edit 3.4M 68k Programmable Texteditor for P...
unz550xA.lha util/arc 137K 68k portable UnZip, source included
NOMAD_Boot.lha util/boot 4K 68k Little Bootblock-Util Installer
Preferences.lha util/wb 1.5M OS4 Prefs window for starting OS ...
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